Jori Costello

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Arts On Tour

The Arts on Tour roster lists a broad spectrum of Arkansas’s finest solo and ensemble performers, individual visual artists and prepared art exhibitions ready for touring within Arkansas. The online AOT listing facilitates the booking process for arts organizations, festival and event planners, schools, civic organizations and government entities interested in contracting with the artists.

The AOT program is designed to reimburse presenters who showcase Arkansas artists listed on the roster. When an AOT artist negotiates a contract with the presenter, the Arkansas Arts Council typically will subsidize 40 percent of the cost of the event as long as funds are available.

New AOT artists are selected each year through a panel process.

The Arts On Tour Artist Roster opens Oct. 15, 2026.

To be eligible for the Arts on Tour Program, a performing or visual artist must:

Maintain a primary residency in Arkansas, or must have an Arkansas based contact.
Have presented concerts, exhibitions, programs or lecture-demonstrations in locations away from their home location at least twice in the previous year. Exhibitions must have been presented in a formal gallery space.

The Arkansas Arts Council reserves the right to determine the appropriateness of the scope or nature of the presentation proposed by a selected Arts on Tour artist and retains the right to determine the suitability of an AOT artist to remain on the roster once they have been selected.

Arts on Tour Artist Roster application forms should be submitted online by completing the form linked below. You will receive an email confirmation when we have received your online submission.

Jori Costello

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Jori Costello is a local award winning singer-songwriter, multi-instrumentalist, performer, playwright, visual artist, and teacher. In her third decade of performing, Jori has been in several bands, choirs, been a solo performer, a dance DJ, radio host, festival emcee, and is now delving into her lifelong love of acting.

She is well known for her part in the nationally touring band Big Bad Gina and in the art rock duo Jorian Oxygen, which grew out of The Jori Costello Band. Her one woman musical tribute Songs of My Soul, has been featured at 5 regional festivals and venues. For Trike Theatre, she was the Music Director for Digging Up Arkansas and the role of “Musician” in Cowboy in the Kitchen. For AR Staged, she created original soundscape for An Old Woman Speaks as well as for the Smokehouse Players production of Talking With. Jori teaches private lessons in multiple instruments, is a session staffer at Girls Rock Camp Madison, a creator of a summer camp music program, and most recently a Music Mentor for Ann Brown Memorial School.

Among her accomplishments, she’s received winning recognition in the Ozark Music Awards “Folk Artist of the Year” for 2002 and “Best Solo Female Singer/Songwriter” for the 2005 Northwest Arkansas Music Awards (NAMA). Jori’s first CD, Home Grown was nominated “Best CD” in the Ozark region. She has been featured on many compilations including her song, “War Games” on the OMNI Peace Center’s Peace CD, and her song, “Past the Pain” for the Arkansas Children’s Shelter.